5 best second innings Test batsmen of all time

#2 Jacques Kallis (4,726 runs)

Regarded as one of the greatest cricketers of all time, Jacques Kallis earned a lot of praise for his orthodox batting technique.

South Africa's leading run-scorer in Tests, scored 4,726 runs in 127 five-dayers between 1996 and 2013, to claim the second spot on this list.

The all-arounder hit 11 tons and 26 fifties in the third or fourth innings of a Test match.

Kallis' highest score on the second attempt in a five-day game came in a 2007 Test against New Zealand at Johannesburg.

Although Dale Steyn was the star of that duel, in the third innings of the match and South Africa's second, Kallis scored 186 to set up a massive target for the visitors.

Consequently, the hosts won the match by a colossal margin of 358 runs.